Passion is the only speaker who is always persuading. [French] La Rochefoucauld: "Moral Proverbs"

The most stupid person with passion can persuade people more than the most eloquent person without mercy. [French] La Rochefoucauld: "Moral Proverbs"

Passion is a kind of hope. This hope may turn into disappointment. Passion means pain and excess at the same time. When hope is lost, passion ends. [French] Balzac: "The Story of Thirteen People"

Since ancient times, the greatest spiritual products of mankind (scientific, artistic and philosophical) are all produced by passion. [Chinese] Zhao Xinshan: "Philosophy and the Contemporary World"

In the human heart, passion is always generated. The death of one passion almost always means the emergence of another. [French] La Rochefoucauld: "Moral Proverbs"

Passion often turns the shrewdest people into madmen and the stupidest fools into shrewd ones. [French] La Rochefoucauld: "Moral Proverbs"

When passion reaches the extreme, a beautiful face will only appear more terrifying. [French] Diderot: "Essays on Diderot's Aesthetics"

All passions are exaggerated, and it is precisely because of exaggeration that they become passions. [Dharma] Chamfort: "Collection of Maxims and Thoughts"

Passion is the truly absolute thing among all things in the world, and it is never willing to admit that it is wrong. [French] Balzac: "Modeste Mignon"

Strong passion is an incurable disease. The very thing which might cure it is the very thing which is really dangerous to it in the first place. [Germany] Goethe: "Goethe's Maxims and Reflections"

Our passions are actually like phoenixes in the fire. When the old one is burned, the new one is immediately born from its ashes. [Germany] Goethe: "Goethe's Maxims and Reflections"

Passion grows and strengthens as it is expressed. [Germany] Goethe: "Goethe's Maxims and Reflections"

Passion is nothing but an intensified good or bad quality. [Germany] Goethe: "Goethe's Collection of Maxims and Reflections"

The passionate part of nature does produce savagery. If it is properly trained, it may become brave. If it is overdone, it will become Harsh and rough. [Ancient Greece] Plato: "The Republic"

The perfection of virtue is not to completely eliminate passion, but to control passion. [Meaning] Aquinas: Summa Theologiae

A philosopher who tries to calm his passions is like a sorcerer who tries to extinguish his alchemical fire. [French] Chamfort: "Collection of Maxims and Thoughts"

It is incredible to hide passion, not because human consciousness is particularly weak, but because the essence of passion is to be discovered: I want you to know that I There is some emotion hidden for you. [France] Roland Barthes: "A Lover's Conversation"